Expands the genetic alphabet: Artificial DNA base pair uses halogen bonds to form stable structures

For the first time, researchers have succeeded in developing an artificial DNA base pair that is based on a different chemical force than natural genetic material. While the common natural DNA ...

Astronomers may have just found one of the missing links in galaxy evolution

A team of 48 astronomers from 14 countries, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has discovered a population of dusty, star-forming galaxies at the far edges of the universe that formed ...

This exoplanet system formed backwards, and nobody can explain why

In a conventional system like our own, rocky planets such as Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars orbit closest to the host star. Farther out, gas giants ...
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Cursive writing requirements would change if proposed legislation passes

Students currently learn cursive between third and fifth grade. If House Bill 127 becomes law, students will begin learning in second grade and will be tested in fifth.
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Formation of Hydrophilic Nanochannels in the Membrane of Living Cells by the Ringlike Stable Protein-SP1

† Department of Neurobiology, The Life Sciences Institute, Faculty of Science, and ‡ The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Sciences and Genetics in Agriculture, Faculty of Agricultural, Food and ...
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Archbishop Hebda introduces 2nd pastoral letter at Parish Staff Formation Day

From left, Annie Grandell, director of YDisciple for NET Ministries in West St. Paul, and Archbishop Bernard Hebda answer questions during a Parish Staff Formation Day gathering at St. Edward in ...
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Formation of Highly Rovibrationally Excited Ammonia from Dissociative Recombination of NH

Department of Chemistry, Atmospheric Science, University of Gothenburg, SE-412 96 Göteborg, Sweden Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Physical Chemistry, Chalmers University of ...